The former U.S. vice president remains deeply involved in the fight against global warming. During a conference in Paris on Friday, he advocated for an ecological transition he believes is inevitable.
He is one of the guiding figures in a chaotic world. While the arrival of Donald Trump to power in the United States, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and budget austerity test the ecological transition, Al Gore, an unwavering advocate for the climate cause, sought to once again inspire optimism in the fight against global warming. On Friday, March 28, at the Louvre in Paris, the 76-year-old former U.S. vice president delivered a more than two-and-a-half-hour speech, without notes, on the climate crisis, its causes, and solutions. The lecture marked the start of three days of climate training organized by his group, The Climate Reality Project, for the first time in the French capital. Among the 800 participants were business leaders, employees, professors, scientists, and students.
With a wealth of graphs, figures, photos, and videos, the former U.S. Democratic vice president presented the gravity of the climate crisis in a compelling way, much like his 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth: humanity releases 175 million tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every day, trapping additional energy equivalent to 750,000 first-generation nuclear bombs exploding daily on Earth. The consequence: temperatures soar, and heatwaves, wildfires, droughts, and deadly floods follow one another, wreaking havoc across the planet.
Source: Le monde
